Newham will shortly be welcoming Karen Whelan to the senior staff team. Ms Whelan will come in to head the council’s Community Wealth Building initiative, one of Mayor Fiaz’s pet projects imported from Corbynite Preston.

For those of you who are wondering why the council has not been a little more energetic in informing the public about the referendum, we can assist.

We asked recently how long the Labour Party was going to be before it reported on the complaints of antisemitism against several of Newham’s Labour Group. No sooner had we published than this turned up.

The London Mayoral Election is coming up and Sadiq Khan is facing competition from a handful of candidates that no-one has ever heard of. If he fails to get an overwhelming mandate, that would be something of an embarrassment.

Allegations of Electoral Fraud and Dodgy Recruitment Practice.

So Bad, They did it Twice.

We do not have a definitive list. We understand that some 15 women submitted an interest in the vacancy. Here follows our odds on the runners (that we are aware of) in the East Ham Central Steeplechase.

The increasingly fragile egos of Newham’s Labour Mayor and Councillors are clearly irritated by the existence of websites and social media which expose their actions and prick at their fragile self-image.

For those of you unfamiliar with the reference, Harold MacMillan was a Tory prime minister in the 1960s. As Earl Stockton he was critical of the sale of public assets by a subsequent Tory government under Margaret Thatcher. He referred to it as “selling off the family silver”.

We reflected upon the previous election experience of one Sabia Kamali, noting how she had previously fought a local election in Tower Hamlets AGAINST Labour and for Tower Hamlets First, the communitarian party of disgraced former mayor, Lutfur Rahman.

The Runners and Riders in the East Ham Central by-election hurdles are being drawn together.

We have attached an open letter from Newham People Power.

In it they express their disappointment in the Mayor and in those councillors whom they see as failing them.

We reported a few days ago on the disarray in Mayor Fiazco's cabinet over their new Parking Tax. You know, the one to really help Newham’s hard-up residents get over the pandemic!

It would seem the tables have turned and John Gray, Newham’s former-Deputy Mayor, and one-time Mayor Fiazco’s Defender-in-Chief has now become her biggest tormentor.

We thought that the revelation last week, that Council Deputy Chair Nazir Ahmed had been suspended over allegations of antisemitism was the last of a line of cases which have bedevilled Newham Council and Newham Labour.

It wasn’t.

Council Deputy Chair Suspended for anti-Semitism.

Here is Mayor Fiaz, promoting a local business.

“Good for her”, we hear you say. Except that this particular vendor of highly sugared confections, appears, according to residents and local councillors, to be the local distribution hub for a number of even more unwholesome and illegal substances.

This is one of those feel-good letters. Mayor Fiaz and her 41 fellow travellers can parade their socialist credentials in front of their comrades for absolutely no cost. They can poke their sanctimonious noses into the industrial relations of a private sector employer in the borough.

You all know the story about the frog. If you throw a frog into boiling water it will hop straight out. If you put it in cold water and bring it to the boil, you’ll get perfectly poached frog legs.

In order to mask her incompetence, Mayor Fiaz is treating the people of Newham like frogs.